lancely

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Etymology

lance +‎ -ly

Adjective

lancely (comparative more lancely, superlative most lancely)

  1. Like a lance.
    • c. 1580 (date written), Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “ Chapter 21”, in Fulke Greville, Matthew Gwinne, and John Florio, editors, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London: for William Ponsonbie, published 1590, →OCLC; republished in Albert Feuillerat, editor, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia (Cambridge English Classics: The Complete Works of Sir Philip Sidney; I), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1912, →OCLC, pages 284–285:
      […] and by him a dosen apparelled like shepherds for the fashion, though rich in stuffe, who caried his launces, which though strong to giue a launcely blow indeed, yet so were they couloured with hooks neere the mourn, that they pretily represẽted shephooks.
    • 1885, Mary Barker Dodge, The Gray Masque: And Other Poems, D. Lothrop & Co., page 80:
      Between two lancely shields of green, each golden
      censer swings,
      And, heedless of our northern cold, its fragrant
      incense flings.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “lancely”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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